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| 1. | Don't Fly During Ramadan (varnull.adityamukerjee.net) | |
| 2744 points | 2013 | author chimeracoder showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I'd recommend reading until the end - unfortunately, it didn't end when I was released from airport.” | ||
| 2. | Petition the Whitehouse to remove Carmen Ortiz from office (petitions.whitehouse.gov) | |
| 801 points | 2013 | author olefoo showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“so allow me to explain my thinking; and why I don't expect Ms. Ortiz to lose her job over this. 1. Obama appointed her, and by many metrics she is doing a good job. 2.…” | ||
| 3. | Pixels don’t care (warpspire.com) | |
| 764 points | 2013 | author kneath showed up | their comment | thread
“Just wanted to clarify, since it seems a lot of people seem to think I'm frustrated with being discriminated against. I'm not. It's a fact of life. I got over it pretty…” | ||
| 4. | Defeated (orenhazi.com) | |
| 759 points | 2013 | author ohazi showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wrote this last night as a way to vent some of my frustration and was really floored by the responses I received in the morning. These solo protests are small battles,…” | ||
| 5. | What really happened at PyCon 2013 (peak5390.wordpress.com) | |
| 746 points | 2013 | author japhyr showed up | their comment | thread
“It's so nice to see the conversation get back to all the good things that go on at PyCon.” | ||
| 6. | Learn Git Branching (pcottle.github.com) | |
| 717 points | 2013 | author xxbondsxx showed up | their comment | thread
“Wow! Author here, did not expect this to get submitted to HN yet (was going to finish out a few more levels this weekend and clean everything up). Forgive the giant…” | ||
| 7. | I found Prezi's source code (blog.shubh.am) | |
| 712 points | 2013 | author infosec_au showed up | their comment | thread
“I've masked last names from the post and PDF, hopefully meaning that they wont be indexed with that post. Thanks for bringing that to my attention.” | ||
| 8. | Kids can't use computers, and why it should worry you (coding2learn.org) | |
| 625 points | 2013 | author MarcScott showed up | their comment | thread | on Y Recombinator
“Thanks for the up votes and the comments - both positive and negative. I'll take all feedback into consideration when I next post anything. I didn't post this on HN…” | ||
| 9. | The Facebook experiment has failed (medium.com) | |
| 612 points | 2013 | author jeswin showed up | their comment | thread
“Didn't think this would show up on HN. These were my thoughts when I wrote it: 1. Most stuff being shared is of no value to most people. Does not encourage exchange of…” | ||
| 10. | NProgress: slim, site-wide progress bars (ricostacruz.com) | |
| 597 points | 2013 | author rstacruz showed up | their comment | thread
“Yes! It's intentional. You can disable this by removing the `cursor: wait` rule in the CSS file.” | ||
| 11. | In 8 months at Microsoft, I learned these things (ahmetalpbalkan.com) | |
| 567 points | 2013 | author alpb showed up | their comment | thread
“I don't think there is a company policy that restricts that or any manager that would be mad because you're answering comments on Stack Overflow. It is all about culture…” | ||
| 12. | Cello: Higher level programming in C (libcello.org) | |
| 535 points | 2013 | author orangeduck showed up | their comment | thread
“Yeah the syntax looks much better with correct highlighting. I've provided a custom definition for Notepad++ on the repo - and of course there is the definition used on…” | ||
| 13. | I knew exactly how she felt (trishkhoo.com) | |
| 521 points | 2013 | author hogfish showed up | their comment | thread
“One simple suggestion to encourage more women into IT - Trish Khoo” | ||
| 14. | Steve Jobs emails that show how to win a negotiation (qz.com) | |
| 499 points | 2013 | author zseward showed up | their comment | thread
“That's a totally fair point about the subject headings, Larry. They're intended to make the emails more accessible and scannable, but of course they oversimplify things.…” | ||
| 15. | Nonplussed (techcrunch.com) | |
| 477 points | 2013 | author devindotcom showed up | their comment | thread
“Hey all. I'm the author. I don't really have much to add here except that I was afraid the article, which I dashed off as all that stuff was happening, would come off as…” | ||
| 16. | Machine learning is easier than it looks (insideintercom.io) | |
| 459 points | 2013 | author benofsky showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“The primary point of this article was the contrast between something as simple as K-Means, and the literature that describes it. It wasn't meant as a full intro to ML,…” | ||
| 17. | HTML5 localStorage allows sites to fill up users' hard disks (feross.org) | |
| 440 points | 2013 | author feross showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“It works for me. I test on IE10 on Windows 8.” | ||
| 18. | This coupon code is a slap in the face (justinjackson.ca) | |
| 431 points | 2013 | author mijustin showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“and just started digging into the research now. ;) Here's what I've found so far: - Oliver & Shor found that: "prompting for a code in the absence of having one had…” | ||
| 19. | X86 MMU fault handling is turing complete (github.com) | |
| 417 points | 2013 | author jbangert showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“While it is true that with the current implementation, memory access is extremely limited (essentially one DWORD per page, or about 0.1% of the available physical RAM)…” | ||
| 20. | Volvo Gave Away the Most Important Design They Ever Patented (priceonomics.com) | |
| 402 points | 2013 | author alexmayyasi showed up | their comment | thread
“I originally had a pic of a regular old seat belt, but when I saw the Volvo meme I had to use it. Just fixed that. Sorry for the confusion!” | ||
| 21. | Mozilla Labs: TogetherJS (togetherjs.com) | |
| 383 points | 2013 | author ianb showed up | their comment | thread
“The big way TogetherJS differs from many of the other realtime products out there, like Firebase or (to a lesser degree) ShareJS, is that it doesn't do any storage. It…” | ||
| 22. | I’m done with the web (randyluecke.tumblr.com) | |
| 376 points | 2013 | author Me1000 showed up | their comment | thread
“First off, thank you all for the comments! Also, thank you Paul for posting this and helping me articulate my thoughts while writing it! Finally, thank you to everyone…” | ||
| 23. | Eloquent JavaScript, Second Edition (eloquentjavascript.net) | |
| 371 points | 2013 | author marijn showed up | their comment | thread
“so I'm far from unbiased, but the main difference in my mind is that The Good Parts is very spartan and extremely prescriptive in what you should do and, especially,…” | ||
| 24. | You Must Try, and then You Must Ask (blogs.akamai.com) | |
| 366 points | 2013 | author mfringel showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“You bring up a very good point. How do you enforce the 15 minute rule? Part of it is incentive structure. That is, detecting when a team implicitly rewards augering in…” | ||
| 25. | Why Cruise Ships are My Favorite Remote Work Location (tynan.com) | |
| 355 points | 2013 | author tynan showed up | their comment | thread
“I wrote the post in transit between those ports. On cruises you go to a lot of ports... this particular one ends up in Florida (Florence to Florida, with 8 stops or so)” | ||
| 26. | In CSS, “px” is not an angular measurement and it is not non-linear (omnicognate.wordpress.com) | |
| 345 points | 2013 | author omnicognate showed up | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“not the original). though I didn't post it here - I just noticed the pingback email. I am indeed responding mainly to the wording, and you'll see at the start and end of…” | ||
| 27. | No bullshit guide to math and physics (minireference.com) | |
| 342 points | 2013 | author ivan_ah showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“Some comments before I go catch up on sleep. 1/ The response by the community was amazing. You guys are great! Especially the ones who are nitpicking and fact checking…” | ||
| 28. | Ten Years of Bootstrapping: Lessons Learned (davegooden.com) | |
| 339 points | 2013 | author cabinguy showed up (and submitted it) | their comment (+1 more) | thread
“So in your case, we were "the enemy" who's head you wanted on a stick. Great. ;)” | ||
| 29. | The Sierpinski triangle page to end most Sierpinski triangle pages (oftenpaper.net) | |
| 333 points | 2013 | author pr_fancycorn showed up (and submitted it) | their comment | thread
“I wanted to mention that I'm not a mathematician, or anything in particular. Any math grad should know comfortably more than me. I'm basically just a "hobbyist of…” | ||
| 30. | Statistics Done Wrong – The woefully complete guide (refsmmat.com) | |
| 331 points | 2013 | author capnrefsmmat showed up | their comment | thread
“It's come full circle -- I posted it a week ago in a "what are you working on?" Ask HN post, someone posted it to Metafilter and reddit, and it made its way to Boing…” | ||
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